Free The Animal

There’s just no way I can’t pay attention to Larry Winget. Honesty is just too refreshing, and he deals it every time. His latest blog entry is just such a treat and he’s dead on in my opinion. “Passion is a load of crap.” … My point to him was that passion is little more than a starting place but true long term success is based on excellence and hard work. … I know many passionate people. They are passionately stupid, passionately wrong and passionately incompetent. Passion and success have about as much to do with each other as gravy and Raisin Bran. But this is the trash being dumped on us by the ill-informed motivational idiots who know little about true success but are quick to tell you how to achieve it. No business ever makes it based on passion. No successful business person every made it to the top based on passion. It’s funny, but I have often told people that I have no particular fondness for the business I’m in. I was at a place in 1992 where I was out of money, this opportunity presented itself, and though I never particularly liked it I was damn…

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I’d heard something about this guy somewhere recently and made a mental note that he’s someone I might have to take a second note of. Then I saw Jeff Michael (a very knowledgeable and responsible debt/credit guy) tout Winget’s most recent book: You’re Broke Because You Want to Be. So I’m taking a second note. And, naturally, he has a blog. Go take a look at his last 10 posts and see if you don’t think he’s an honest straight shooter that deals in reality and facts; while ridiculing the standard-fare platitudes of conventional self-help. I do. There are literally thousands of motivational speakers spouting ridiculous platitudes that do nothing more than make you feel good for the moment and have very little lasting effect. They sound good, but they don’t work. Let me prove it to you. I bet you’ve heard these lines: “As long as you have a good, positive attitude everything will be all right.” Sorry, but that is a lie. I’ve had a positive attitude my entire life and had plenty of crap happen to me. So get a little negative. Get sick of the way things are so you will take action to change things….

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